The Big Town (1987)
- Starring:
- Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, (more)
- Director(s):
- Ben Bolt
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of The Big Town
The Big Town is Chicago, circa 1957. Matt Dillon stars as a small-town crapshooter who heads to the Windy City to seek his fortune. There he becomes the pawn of two high-rolling professional gamblers, played by Lee Grant and Bruce Dern. He later gets mixed up in a revenge scheme cooked up by Diane Lane, the embittered wife of strip-joint owner Tommy Lee Jones. Before he knows what's happened, Dillon is embroiled in two torrid romances, one with Lane and the other with "nice" girl Suzy Amis; he also nearly loses his life by ending up in the middle of a deadly feud between Dern and Jones. Based on The Arm, a novel by Clark Howard, Big Town tends towards uneveness, a result perhaps of the defection of its first director, Harold Becker. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 110 mins
Complete Cast of The Big Town
- Matt Dillon - J.C. Cullen
- Tommy Lee Jones - George Cole
- Lee Grant - Ferguson Edwards
- Suzy Amis - Aggie Donaldson
- Chris Benson - Shooter
- Michael Caruana - Gem Club Gambler
- Layne Coleman - Murphy
- Don Lake - Patsy Fuqua
- Errol Slue - Friendly Guy
- Sarah Polley - Christy Donaldson
- Robert Morelli - Sideburns
- Sean McCann - Roy Mc Mullin
- Robert Collins - Gem Club Gamblers
- Len Doncheff - Gem Club Gambler
- Diego Matamoros - Sid
- Hugo Dann - Elmo
- J. Winston Carroll - Detective
- Steve Yorke - Garage Boy
- Richard Comar - Gem Club Gambler
- Lolita Davidovich - Black Lace Stripper
- Don Francks - Carl Hooker
- Diane Lane - Lorry Dane
- Bruce Dern - Mr. Edwards
- Tom Skerritt - Phil Carpenter
- David Marshall Grant - Sonny Binkley
- Kirsten Bishop - Adele
- Del Close - Deacon Daniels
- Meg Hogarth - Dorothy Cullen
- Marc Strange - Madigan
- Angelo Rizacos - Harold
- Chris Owens - Garage Boy
- Ken McGregor - Bartender
- Sam Malkin - Bernstein
- John Evans - Marvin Brown
- Gerry Pearson - Baptist Preacher
- Kevin Fox - Boss's Son
- Alar Aedma - Doorman
- David James Elliott - Cool Guy
- Cherry Jones - Ginger McDonald
- Mark Danton - Prager
- Gary Farmer - Duke
- Diane Gordon - Mrs. Rogers
- Director(s):
- Ben Bolt
- Writer(s):
- Robert Roy Pool
- Producer(s):
- Martin Ransohoff
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Nudity, Adult Situations, Adult Language, Not For Children, Violence)
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